Thought I'd mention the primary big problems I had with the update. These are ones for which I found no answer (I'm hardly a guru, though. I expect the workaround is out there somewhere.) I thought it might be nice for whoever's writing the install scripts...
Both gnome and kde were problems. I don't know about the kde issues other than I Think they are similar to the gnome ones. (Both desktops are options for me. I actually play mostly with fvwm2/ctwm/other managers.) I need sleep occasionally. Gnome packages hung on an issue of a gnome library package apparently trying to overwrite a file also included in gnome-bin. Renaming the file and rerunning the install still failed despite gnome-bin not being on that section of the install list, so I figure it's in the script somewhere? I "solved" this (after a number of unsuccessful attempts to force an install or remove one package or another to remove the conflict) by using dselect to remove all of gnome. The apt-get dist-upgrade apparently continued to install a few gnome packages. Too late at that point to check. Imlib also was problematic. This stemmed from /etc/im being linked to /etc/imlib (probably from an earlier potato update?), causing the install to attempt copying an rc file onto itself. I delinked the two, and copied imlib to im. Things proceded smoothly from there. I don't watch every thread here, so these may have surfaced before. Sorry if so. But thought it would be best to throw 'em out to the pack. Kenward In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/03/99 at 02:06 AM, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> a whimper... Will continue the update and see what happens. >For the curious, the problem was probably like this: >1) apt-get dist-upgrade runs through, upgrading tons of stuff. [...] -- ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------